The Moral Case for Mockery
Bad ideas are all over, spreading out like infections. Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, offers the prescription.
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Script:
Bad concepts are all over …
Spreading like infections …
Infecting every location of our lives …
And driving millions of otherwise logical individuals to accept the irrational.
Here’s one obvious example. It highlights a more comprehensive point I want to make about– of all things– the moral significance of mockery.
Ready for this?
We’re told by so-called specialists with straight faces that males can become women and women can become males.
We’re informed that sex is assigned at birth, rather than observed, as if physicians just make their best guess whenever they see a newborn.
We’re told guys can become pregnant and “chestfeed.”.
These aren’t fringe ideas promoted by radicals on Reddit. They’re traditional, backed by once-respected medical companies, highly-educated medical professionals, and popular web health websites.
Go to healthline.com and key in, “Can males get pregnant?” and you’ll discover this response:.
” Yes, it’s possible for males to conceive and bring to life children of their own … In order to discuss, we’ll require to break down some typical misunderstandings about how we understand the term ‘man.'”.
The people who simply told us men can get pregnant are going to clear up mistaken beliefs for us? Hmm, I don’t believe so.
It would be bad enough if these concepts were merely popular, but they’ve quickly gone from mainstream to necessary.
You can’t slam them.
You can’t even joke about them.
Comedians run the risk of being canceled, and in some cases physically assaulted, for doing so.
In a twisted way, this all type of makes sense.
In order to prop up a ridiculous worldview that can’t be safeguarded, and even coherently articulated, you need to insulate it from criticism– especially the comedic kind that utilizes mockery to expose foolishness.
It’s embarrassing to be exposed as a fool.
It can’t be endured.
My group at the Babylon Bee discovered this the hard way when we made a joke about Rachel Levine, a transgender health admiral in the Biden administration.
USA Today had called Rachel Levine as one of their “Women of the Year.” They were major. However Rachel Levine is no more a female than I am.
We fired back with this satirical headline: “The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine.”.
The mockery, naturally, was of USA Today– not the admiral.
Twitter– pre-Elon– was not amused. We refused.
The intolerable reality you’re not enabled to speak is that Rachel Levine in fact misgenders himself whenever he calls himself a female. And pointing that out, no matter how it’s done, is not despiteful conduct since the reality is not hate speech.
This is how the system is rigged to protect bad concepts.
The leftists who dominate our media and culture are armed with both a sword and a shield. They can call anyone who differs with them a bigot, a transphobe, a Nazi. It does not matter. They know, they’ll never get banned.
That’s the sword.
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Bad ideas are everywhere, spreading out like infections. Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, provides the prescription.
Rachel Levine is no more a woman than I am.
The leftists who dominate our media and culture are armed with both a guard and a sword. They can call anyone who varies with them a bigot, a transphobe, a Nazi.
